KUWAIT SOUGHT INTERNATIONAL OPERATION TO PROTECT SHIPPING IN GULF, SAYS OIL MINISTER
It was only after exploring the possibility of an international operation to ensure freedom of navigation in the Gulf that Kuwait approached the USSR and the US with a view to protecting its oil shipments, according to the Kuwaiti Oil Minister, Shaikh 'Ali Khalifah al-Sabah. Moreover the US response to these approaches was initially neutral, and subsequently it was the Americans who came back and...
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